Aleksandr Revva Russian Comedian Born 1974 in Donetsk

Early life

Aleksandr Vladimirovich Revva was born on 10 September 1974 in Donetsk, then part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. He is a Russian comedian of Ukrainian origin who is also widely known under the stage name Arthur Pirozhkov. He studied management in Donetsk, and before entering entertainment he worked as an electrical mechanic at a mine. According to his own account, Revva is not the surname the family originally used; relatives who had lived in Estonia went by a different name before moving to Ukraine.

His route into comedy ran through KVN, the student comedy league popular across the former Soviet Union. From 1995 he played for a team representing a Donetsk agricultural university, and from 2000 he was a member of the team called Burnt by the Sun, where one of his teammates was Mikhail Galustyan.

Career

In 2006 Revva became a resident of Comedy Club, the Russian stand-up and sketch programme. He served as president of the Moscow Comedy Club from 2006 to 2013, performing alongside Garik Martirosyan, Garik Kharlamov, Timur Batrutdinov and Andrei Rozhkov. With Rozhkov he also presented the NTV show You're Funny!. From November 2013 to January 2014 he hosted the Channel One programme Repeat!, and in the spring of 2014 he sat on the judges' panel of One to One!. In 2010 he opened a restaurant venture named Spaghetteria with the restaurateur Dmitry Orlinsky, and he later worked as a producer of the animated series Kolobanga.

In 2009 he began releasing pop songs under the Arthur Pirozhkov name, mixing comic material with catchy melodies. Among his early singles were "Paradise" (2009) and "Revolution" (2010), the latter recorded with Quest Pistols. Later releases include "Luna" with Vera Brezhneva (2014), "Either Love" (2017), "Chika" (2018) and, in 2019, "My Goddess" with Doni. The 2019 single "Hooked" is credited under the Arthur Pirozhkov name, and Warner Music Russia is listed as one of the labels that released his music. Glukoza appears among the credited collaborators on three of his listed titles.

On screen, he also took acting and voice parts. He voiced characters in several animated productions in the late 2000s, and he appeared in the comedy series Zaytsev+1 between 2011 and 2014. The first film in his formal credit list is Double (2013). His best-known film role is in Naughty Grandma (2017), in which he plays Sanya Rubenstein and shares a writing credit. He also wrote the sequels Naughty Grandma 2 (2019) and Grandma of Easy Virtue 3 (2021). In Zomboyashchik (2018) he played a jinn.

His wider audience online is considerable: his YouTube channel counted 2.2 million subscribers in May 2025, and his Instagram account had over ten million followers by October 2026.

Recognition

No major awards are recorded for Revva in the sources used for this profile. His career has been split between stage comedy, television, music and film since the mid-2000s.